On so many levels this is like the vinyl to digital music shift in the 90s
The shortsighted assumptions about digital's real or potential superiority in product quality, durability, etc...
The greedy price gouging and dickwad invasions of ownership of digital products in a new market... Remember when the music industry actually tried to kill the used cd market??? God they got what was coming to them
...and then of course, some truly great things that the physical lit world just can't do, like in books, the Gutenberg project
Books will find a niche and stick around just like Vinyl did... For similar reasons
The only truly beautiful thing the Internet has done for literature as

I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...